2007
Doris Lessing (winner)

2006
Orhan Pamuk (winner)

2005
Harold Pinter (winner)

2004
Elfriede Jelinek (winner)

2003
J M Coetzee (winner)

2002
Imre Kertész (winner)

2001
V S Naipaul (winner)

2000
Gao Xingjian (winner)

1999
Günter Grass (winner)

1998
José Saramago (winner)

1997
Dario Fo (winner)

1996
Wislawa Szymborska (winner)

1995
Seamus Heaney (winner)

1994
Kenzaburo Oe (winner)

1993
Toni Morrison (winner)

1992
Derek Walcott (winner)

1991
Nadine Gordimer (winner)

1990
Octavio Paz (winner)

1989
Camilo José Cela (winner)

1988
Naguib Mahfouz (winner)

1987
Joseph Brodsky (winner)

1986
Wole Soyinka (winner)

1985
Claude Simon (winner)

1984
Jaroslav Seifert (winner)

1983
William Golding (winner)

1982
Gabriel García Márquez (winner)

1981
Elias Canetti (winner)

1980
Czeslaw Milosz (winner)

1979
Odysseus Elytis (winner)

1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer (winner)

1977
Vicente Aleixandre (winner)

1976
Saul Bellow (winner)

1975
Eugenio Montale (winner)

1974
Eyvind Johnson (winner)
Harry Martinson (winner)

1973
Patrick White (winner)

1972
Heinrich Böll (winner)

1971
Pablo Neruda (winner)

1970
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (winner)

1969
Samuel Beckett (winner)

1968
Yasunari Kawabata (winner)

1967
Miguel Angel Asturias (winner)

1966
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (winner)
Nelly Sachs (winner)

1965
Mikhail Sholokhov (winner)

1964
Jean-Paul Sartre (winner)

1963
Giorgos Seferis (winner)

1962
John Steinbeck (winner)

1961
Ivo Andric (winner)

1960
Saint-John Perse (winner)

1959
Salvatore Quasimodo (winner)

1958
Boris Pasternak (winner)

1957
Albert Camus (winner)

1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez (winner)

1955
Halldór Laxness (winner)

1954
Ernest Hemingway (winner)

1953
Winston Churchill (winner)

1952
François Mauriac (winner)

1951
Pär Lagerkvist (winner)

1950
Bertrand Russell (winner)

1949
William Faulkner (winner)

1948
T S Eliot (winner)

1947
André Gide (winner)

1946
Hermann Hesse (winner)

1945
Gabriela Mistral (winner)

1944
Johannes V Jensen (winner)

1939
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (winner)

1938
Pearl S Buck (winner)

1937
Roger Martin du Gard (winner)

1936
Eugene O'Neill (winner)

1934
Luigi Pirandello (winner)

1933
Ivan Bunin (winner)

1932
John Galsworthy (winner)

1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (winner)

1930
Sinclair Lewis (winner)

1929
Thomas Mann (winner)

1928
Sigrid Undset (winner)

1927
Henri Bergson (winner)

1926
Grazia Deledda (winner)

1925
George Bernard Shaw (winner)

1924
Wladyslaw Reymont (winner)

1923
W B Yeats (winner)

1922
Jacinto Benavente (winner)

1921
Anatole France (winner)

1920
Knut Hamsun (winner)

1919
Carl Spitteler (winner)

1917
Karl Adolph Gjellerup (winner)
Henrik Pontoppidan (winner)

1916
Verner von Heidenstam (winner)

1915
Romain Rolland (winner)

1913
Rabindranath Tagore (winner)

1912
Gerhart Hauptmann (winner)

1911
Maurice Maeterlinck (winner)

1910
Paul Heyse (winner)

1909
Selma Lagerlöf (winner)

1908
Rudolf Eucken (winner)

1907
Rudyard Kipling (winner)

1906
Giosuè Carducci (winner)

1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz (winner)

1904
Frédéric Mistral (winner)
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (winner)

1903
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (winner)

1902
Theodor Mommsen (winner)

1901
Sully Prudhomme (winner)